X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44E0286D.2010604@netbauds.net> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:38:21 +0100 From: Darryl Miles User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060727 SeaMonkey/1.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: when two packages depend on eachother, it's impossible to uninstall them References: <01ab01c6be4e$c443ebf0$a501a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> In-Reply-To: <01ab01c6be4e$c443ebf0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Dave Korn wrote: > On 12 August 2006 20:21, joe trree wrote: > Can you work around this problem by (starting with both at "Keep") > > - set first package to "Reinstall" > - set second package to "Reinstall" > - set first package to "Uninstall" > - set second package to "Uninstall" Maybe it would be intuitive ask the user (by providing a dialogue box with package list and count) to implicitly set the Reinstall/Uninstall operation on all mutually-dependant packages and their descendants in the same operation. A two button dialog offering "Abort" or "Include". Darryl -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/